I've been seeing them in my yard in Coon Rapids too. Never thought I'd be considering putting up a BB house here. They've been in my bird bath. :-)
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Liz Stanley <l...@lizstanley.com> wrote: From: Liz Stanley <l...@lizstanley.com> Subject: Re: [mou-net] Bluebirds in Plymouth To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 3:31 PM I have a bluebird sitting on 5 eggs now. It's the third brood of the season. The first was lost to predation when the chicks were 3 days old, and the second fledged 4 chicks, which the parents are currently feeding. I did notice that they started almost a month later this year than they did last year. My neighborhood has a lot of mature trees and probably wouldn't be considered ideal bluebird habitat, but there must be enough open area that they find it acceptable. Plus I bribe them with a continuous supply of mealworms. ;) > In May I spotted an Eastern Bluebird in my neighbor’s yard. Good spot > but I did not pay much attention to it since we have very little open > Bluebird habitat around here and I assumed it was in transit somewhere > else, like Baker Park. For the last 2 weeks, my neighbor has seen > Bluebirds in her yard. Over the past 3 days, I have seen them in her yard > until, today, it crossed the street into my yard, a first for us. Even > more interesting was that it was a juvenile bird being fed by its parent. > So – now I have to look around the area for next year and see if there > is a good nesting site around here. I guess these birds could have > fledged somewhere else and are moving through here. Also, I have not seen > much on the listserve about Bluebirds this year but, this got me > wondering; Did the early cold weather adversely affect Bluebirds, i.e. > are they re-nesting? Did they lose the early young to “cold weather > starvation”? Or is this just a normal or regular brood? It just seems > maybe a tad late in the year. > > Sid Stivland > Plymouth, MN > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Liz Stanley Bloomington, MN l...@lizstanley.com Backyard weather and feedercam: http://www.overlookcircle.org/ Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/gymell/liz_favorites Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lizmstanley ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
